Features; Asus P5A-Vm Motherboard - Asus P5A-VM User Manual

ASUS P5A-VM Motherboard

• ALi AGPset: ALi
100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), and all current
Socket 7 processors.
• Multi-Processor/Multi-Speed Support: AMD K6
2/266 & faster, AMD K6
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M II (PR166 & faster), IDT WinChip 2
(Rev 2.7 or later), Intel Pentium
• AGP 3D VGA: Features optional ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X (8MB SDRAM) or Rage
IIC AGP (4MB SDRAM) for 3D hardware acceleration.
• Enhanced ACPI and Anti-Boot Virus BIOS: Features a programmable BIOS, offering
enhanced ACPI for Windows 98 compatibility, built-in hardware-based virus protection through
Trend ChipAwayVirus, and autodetection of most devices for virtually automatic setup.
• PC100 Memory Support: Equipped with three DIMM sockets to support Intel PC100-
compliant SDRAMs (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256MB) up to 768MB. These new SDRAMs
are necessary to meet the enhanced 95MHz/100MHz bus speed requirement.
• PCI Audio: Features optional ESS 32-bit PCI audio onboard.
• Ultra DMA/33 BM IDE: Comes with an onboard PCI Bus Master IDE controller
with two connectors that support four IDE devices in two channels, supports Ultra
DMA/33, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 2, and supports En-
hanced IDE devices, such as Tape Backup, CD-ROM, and LS-120 drives.
• Wake-On-LAN Connector: Supports Wake-On–LAN activity with special network
cards, such as the ASUS PCI-L101 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card.
• PC Health Monitoring: Provides (optional) a convenient utility to monitor your
system's vital components/activities, such as fan rotations, voltages, and temperatures.
• Super Multi-I/O: Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one
parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART2 can also be directed from COM2
(with Fast IR) to the Infrared Module for wireless connections.
• Desktop Management Interface (DMI): Supports DMI through BIOS, which al-
lows hardware to communicate within a standard protocol creating a higher level of
compatibility. (Requires DMI-enabled components.) (See section V)
• Level 2 Cache SRAM/Tag RAM: Features 512KB (up to 1MB when SRAM is avail-
able) pipelined-burst SRAM/L2 memory cache and integrated Tag RAM to make using the
100MHz bus speed possible.
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